Jorge Canestri, M. D., is President of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association. He is a Training and Supervising analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and for the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. He is also Editor for Europe of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Chair of the International New Groups Committee of the IPA. In addition to his Role as psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he specializes in linguistics and epistemology. He has served as Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association, Chair of the Ethics Committee of the IPA, Chair of the Working Party on Theoretical Issues of the European Psychoanalytic Federation, Editor of the Educational Section of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Chair of the 42nd Congress of the IPA in Nice 2001, a Member of the Conceptual and Empirical Research Committee of the IPA, Professor of Psychology of Mental Health at the Univerita de Roma, and in numerous other positions. He has published numerous psychoanalytical papers in books and reviews, including «Language, Symbolisation and Psychosis», co-authored " The Babel of the Unconscious Mother Tongue and Foreign Languages in the Pyschoanalytic Dimension«, edited and co-authored such books as «Pluralism and Unity? Methods of research in psychoanalysis» and «Psychoanalysis: From Practice to Theory». In 2004 for his contribution to psychoanalysis he received the Mary S. Sigourney Award.

Henry F. Smith, M. D., is Editor-in-Chief of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Chair of the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East (PINE) and a Geographic Rule Training Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The author of over 100 papers on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, his articles include «Hearing Voices: The Fate of the Analyst’s Identifications,» awarded the 2001 Journal Prize of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, «Analyzing Disavowed Action: The Fundamental Resistance of Analysis,» presented as the Plenary Address to the American Psychoanalytic Association and published in JAPA in 2006, and «Leaps of Faith: Is Forgiveness a Useful Concept?» published recently in the IJP.

Gigliola Fornari Spoto, M. D., is trained in Medicine and Psychiatry in Italy and then at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is a Senior Training Analyst and Supervisor of the British Psychoanalytic Society with the full-time psychoanalytic practice in London. She has taught and supervised extensively in the UK and abroad. She has been an active participant at several psychoanalytic meetings and forums, including the main EPF conference in London, 2010 (Chair of a panel). She presented one of a key paper «Addiction to goodness: is the object ever good enough?» at the Melanie Klein Trust Conference «Problems with Good Objects», London 2006. Together with John Steiner she was the co-organizer of the Melanie Klein Trust Conference «Working with Phantasy» held in honour of Hanna Segal’s 90th birthday, London, 2008. She has published several papers, including «Getting Rid of Oedipus: An Impossible Solution» and «Luxuriating in stupefaction: the analysis of a narcissistic fetish», contributed to the book «In Pursuit of Psychic Change. Betty Joseph Workshop» and edited book of Eric Brenman «Recovery of the Lost Good Object».

Franziska Henningsen, Dr. phil., Dipl.-Psych. is a Member of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV) and Training Analyst at the Karl-Abraham-Institute, Berlin. She has published in different psychoanalytic journals on psychoanalytic theory and practice with adults and children, psychosomatic diseases, psychic trauma, homosexuality and the East-West-Dialogue, including “Destruction and guilt: Splitting and reintegration in the analysis of a traumatised patient” in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She took many important positions in the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV), was Secretary of the DPV (2000-2004), Chair of the DPV Committee for integration Child Analysis (2000-2004), Chair of the German East-West committee (1992-2000), Chair of the Committee for outreach and Interdisciplinary Dialogue (2004-2006), member of the local organizing committee of the International Psychoanalytic Congress in Berlin (2007). Now she is Chair of the DPV Committee for Eastern Europe, Member of the Moscow Sponsoring Committee and chair for Europe in the IPA project group for outreach.

Jean-Michel Quinodoz, M. D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. He is a psychoanalyst in full-time private practice in Geneva and the author of numerous articles and books among them: «The Taming of Solitude,» «Dreams that Turn Over a Page,» «Reading Freud,» and his recently published : «Listening to Hanna Segal: Her Contributions to Psychoanalysis.» Quinodoz clinical and theoretical work provides a rich and experience near synthesis of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, and Bion. He is the past European Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (1993-2003 and 2009-2010) and Editor of the Annuals of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is an active participant of numerous IPA and EPF congresses and conference. He has taught psychoanalysis and supervised in Switzerland and many Centers in Europe and the USA.

Tamara Stajner Popovic, is a Training Analyst and a Child and Adolescent Analyst of the Belgrade Psychoanalytical Society. Works in full time private practice. Was president of the Belgrade Psychoanalytic Study Group (1997-2003), Editor for Europe of The International IPA Newsletter from 2005 to 2009, Co Chair for Europe of the IPA International New Groups Committee (2007-2009). Is Member of EPF Trauma Group since 1997 and PIEE Associate Director for Outreach and Teaching since 2003. Co editor of three books «Upheaval: Psychoanalytical Perspectives on Trauma with Sverre Varvin (2002), «Sex, Sexuality and Psychoanalysis» (2004) with Vesna Brzev Curcic and Vojislav Curcic, «Love» (2009) with Vesna Brzev Curcic. Author of about 50 articles translated into a number of languages (English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Italian).

Igor M. Kadyrov, is a Training analyst and Supervisor at the Moscow Psychoanalytic Society. He is Past President of this Society (1998-2006) and Direct member of the International Psychoanalytical Association since 1999. He is also a clinical psychologist, Ph. D. in medical psychology and Associate Professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Hå is a member of the Staff of the Han Groen-Prakken Psychoanalytic Institute for Eastern Europe and has taught extensively in Russia and Eastern Europe. He is a member of the European Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, member of the editorial boards of other Journals, including «Psychosis» and Moscow Psychotherapeutic Journal. He has published on such subjects as psychoses, mental and analytic space, psychoanalytic epistemology, applied psychoanalysis and development of psychoanalysis in Russia and Eastern Europe, including «Analytic space and work in Russia: Some remarks on past and present» and «Psychoanalysis across cultural and linguistic difference» published in the IJP.

Ekaterina S. Kalmykova, Ph. D., Direct member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Training analyst and Supervisor of Moscow Psychoanalytic Society (Study Group of IPA), senior researcher at the Institute of Psychology Russian Academy of Sciences. Recent publications concern psychotherapeutic process research, attachment, mentalization.

Alexander Uskov, Psychoanalyst, Member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, Training analyst and Supervisor of the Moscow Psychoanalytic Society, one of the founders and Scientific Secretary of the MPS and author of several papers on psychoanalytic theory and practice.